Leading Britain's Conversation.

This is a podcast from LBC, James O'Brien.

They had had, it's fair to say, a mere 415 years to get their heads around the idea that governments aren't allowed to put the same proposals before Parliament endlessly until they get the answer that they want.

Have a little think about that phrase there. You can't keep asking the question until you get the

answer that you want. Those of us who have arrived at the conclusion that a people's vote is

a possible way, the only possible way, perhaps out of the current mess, the current logjam,

keep getting told, you can't keep asking the question until you get the answer that you want,

to which we respond by saying, but it's a completely different question, addressing a completely

different set of circumstances. The referendum in 2016 was binary and profoundly corrupt in every imaginable way, given that people on the same side were selling completely different and contrary promises.

So any question that is asked now would be demonstrably different.

It would be, do you want this deal? Do you want to leave with

no deal, which sadly still leaves the door open to lies and contradictions? Because everybody

punting no deal could punt a different version of no deal, just as everybody punting Brexit

punted a different version of Brexit. Or this deal, which is the best available, the only one we can get.

Within the context of Theresa May's red lines, I suspect that if there isn't a people's vote,

then we'll be looking at a retreat from some of those red lines.

But this morning, it really does lead to the conclusion that they're never going to admit they were wrong these people.

They are psychologically and almost sociopathically incapable of admitting that they were wrong.

You can see it in the newspapers most obviously, where the coating that John Burko has received for essentially enforcing

both our constitution and parliamentary sovereignty.

I mean, control is what he's done.

Democracy is, he said to a legislative, to an executive, to a government, he said you cannot

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